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Intro -- Contents -- The Authors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Rethinking the Order of Time -- From Biblical Time to Darwinian Time: Discourses on the Living World in the 18th and 19th Centuries -- Memory Strata, Geology and Change of Historical Paradigm in France around 1830 -- Devilish Words: Pierre Boitard, "maître Georges" and the Advance of Nature -- From Biological Time to Historical Time: the Category of "Development" (Entwicklung) in the Historical Thought of Herder, Kant, Hegel, and Marx -- "O man! wilt thou never conceive that thou art but an ephemeron?": the Reception of Geological Deep Time in the Late 18th Century -- Part 2 Atavism and Heredity -- The Law of Progress, Atavism, and Prehistory in the Belle Époque -- Nietzsche, or Culture Put to the Test at the Timescale of Heredity -- Zola, Hereditability of Character and Hereditability of Deviation: after a Remark by Bergson in L'Évolution Créatrice -- Life, Sex and Temporality in Zola's La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret -- Part 3 Nature and Culture -- Time of History and Time of Nature in the Historical Novels of Victor Hugo -- Historical Time, Cultural Time, and Biological Time in Baudelaire -- Evolution and Time in the Chants de Maldoror -- Memory of the Body in Proust: Historical Time and Biological Time -- Part 4 Poetics of Time -- The Poetics of Restored Time: Balzac, His Age and the Figure of Cuvier -- The Evolution of Social Species in Balzac's Comédie humaine -- Time as Imagined in the Evolutionary Epic -- Evolutionism and Successivity in Antediluviana, Poème géologique by Ernest Cotty (1876) -- End of the World, End of Time: the Theory of Evolution and Its Fate in the Novel of Anticipation -- A Biologist Literary History: August Wilhelm Schlegel and the Franco-German Natural Sciences -- Part 5 Biology and Ideology -- Evolutionary Time and Revolutionary Time (Michelet, Flaubert, Zola) Michelet and La Mer: Biology and the Philosophy of History -- "Il faut manger et être mangé pour que le monde vive": the Zolian Belly amidst Evolution, Revolution, and Convolutions -- Gobineau's Heroes Are Ageless -- Darwinus anarchistus explodens: Science and the Legend of the Struggle for Life (Louise Michel) -- Index
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